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Re: The few creating a problem for the rest of us...
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:24 pm
by qwerty
Shorts wrote:Media Weasel wrote:
Don't hand out motorbike licences to any kid under 25?
Seriously - we allow sexy ads for sexy bikes and throw ill-trained testosterone-laden teens onto the roads with periously little education. What else _can_ happen?
At that, I've seen a lot of riders over 25 that still behave like they were 16. How do you fix that, when grownups act that way and be ok with it?
I completely agree, Shorts. I was lambasted on another motorcycle forum when a 40-something posted scathing remarks about a cager stopping quickly in front of him, and him smacking the cage hard enough to total his bike and end up going through the back window of the minivan. Well, halfway through, anyway. He went on and on about how the wreck was the cager's fault for stopping quick (as if any minivan ever built can actually stop quick
). I mentioned that every state where I've ever had a license had the phrase "able to stop in the assured clear distance ahead", therefore, the following vehicle is automatically at fault in a rear-ender.
Re: The few creating a problem for the rest of us...
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:03 pm
by intotherain
Media Weasel wrote:
Don't hand out motorbike licences to any kid under 25?
Seriously - we allow sexy ads for sexy bikes and throw ill-trained testosterone-laden teens onto the roads with periously little education. What else _can_ happen?
meh im under 25 and the only reason I dont go too fast is because I quite frankly dont want to die. I think you are just talking about a very, very small percentage of teens. I know about 10 people about my age who ride and they arent speed demons, we ride because of the freedom/fun/etc.
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:57 am
by totalmotorcycle
pinger05 wrote:They stressed over and over again in the video that it was "...a small percentage of riders that are making the mountains unsafe..." Hopefully that message doesnt get drowned out buy people traveling 100+ MPH.
Cam, this was a video from a investigative unit Fox News 5 doing a report on all the accidents on "the loop". This is a mountanous stretch of three highways in north Georgia. They interviewed two people who were injured by reckless sport bike riders, and promised tomorrow to have more info about how fast people were riding.
<edit> they say there is an accident ever 2 days on "the loop", and since January there have been 13 fatalities.
There are quite a few famous (infamous) deadly (deadlist) motorcycle mountain race roads all around the world riders love to give er a go on. I know a couple in Alberta and British Columbia Canada and I'm sure other riders here know of a few too in Canada and the USA (and other parts of the World).
Like:
TAIL OF THE DRAGON AT DEALS GAP, with 318 curves in 11 miles, is America's number one motorcycle and sports car road. The nearby CHEROHALA SKYWAY is quickly becoming number two with its remote 60 miles of scenic mountain highway. The area also has other incredible roads like the MOONSHINER 28, DEVILS TRIANGLE, THE DIAMONDBACK, SIX GAP NORTH GEORGIA, THE SNAKE and GREAT FOREST SERVICE DUAL SPORT RIDING.
As long as riders have/show respect for the road and other vehicles on it...
Mike